Siegfried Handloser, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German physician
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Place of Birth: Konstanz, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
About Siegfried Handloser
- Siegfried Adolf Handloser (25 March 1885 – 3 July 1954) was a Doctor, Prof.
- of Medicine, Generaloberstabsarzt (three stars, OF-8) of the German Armed Forces Medical Services, Chief of the German Armed Forces Medical Services.
- He was one of the accused in the Doctors' Trial in Nuremberg—after the main Nuremberg Trials. Born in Konstanz he had been a member of the German Army Medical Service since the First World War.
- In 1938, Handloser was promoted to the position of Army Group physician of the Army Group Command 3.
- In October, 1939, he was named honorary professor. He had held the position of Chief of the Medical Services of the Armed Forces during World War II.
- It was the most important medical position in the entire German Armed Forces and the Waffen-SS. Yet despite his full knowledge, he had done nothing to stop medical experiments conducted on concentration camp prisoners; this was sufficient to implicate him in the several medical cases dealt with during the Doctors' Trial. He was convicted by the American Military Tribunal No.
- I in August 1947, and sentenced to life imprisonment.
- This was later reduced to 20 years and, in 1954, he was released.
- Shortly afterwards, Handloser died of cancer in Munich at the age of 69.
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